Cleopatra looking upwards while holding an asp in her right hand and clutching at her stomach with her left, a bowl of figs at left, after Reni
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Public domain reproduction of Italian art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1600 - 1900
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)